Tropescilloscope: Mistaken for Gay

A character or a duo are mistaken to be homosexual by other people. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Brutal Honesty Chekhov's Gunman Undying Loyalty Red Herring Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ghost Fiction Wounded Gazelle Gambit Belligerent Sexual Tension Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Australian Movies Hair-Trigger Temper Sequel Escalation And I Must Scream Straight Gay Funny Background Event In Medias Res It Can Think Race Against the Clock Never Trust a Trailer Antagonist Title Celebrity Paradox Deus ex Machina The Stoner Evil vs. Evil Red Right Hand Tempting Fate Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – Law Romantic Comedy Dramatic Irony Neck Snap Dropped a Bridge on Him Costume Porn Distracted by the Sexy Posthumous Character The Alleged Car Darker and Edgier Kids Are Cruel Fake Shemp Never My Fault Protagonist Title Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Moment Killer Dirty Coward Does This Remind You of Anything? Hooker with a Heart of Gold Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Hero of Another Story Jitter Cam Sadistic Choice After the End Shell-Shocked Veteran Butt-Monkey Cluster F-Bomb Let's Get Dangerous! Honor Before Reason Gainax Ending Vampire Fiction All Just a Dream Malevolent Masked Men What Happened to the Mouse? Politically Incorrect Villain Rule of Three Adaptational Villainy Domestic Abuse Final Girl Alas, Poor Villain Fan Disservice The Great Depression The Dragon Bland-Name Product Re-Cut Badass Grandpa Badass Normal Animal Title Index Precision F-Strike Eye Scream Corpsing Crazy Jealous Guy Fun with Acronyms Ominous Latin Chanting The Alcoholic Informed Ability Bad Boss Composite Character Not So Stoic N-Word Privileges Knight Templar All There in the Manual Dissonant Serenity Becoming the Mask Heterosexual Life-Partners The Hero Dies Hypocritical Humor Obviously Evil From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptation Distillation Reasonable Authority Figure Mythology Gag Fanservice Brainless Beauty Title Drop Tagline Exactly What It Says on the Tin Male Frontal Nudity Eureka Moment Drugs Are Bad Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Killed Mid-Sentence Hoist by His Own Petard Evil Is Petty Evil-Detecting Dog Hope Spot Anyone Can Die Kill 'em All Even Evil Has Loved Ones Eagleland Psycho for Hire Kill It with Fire B-Movie Failed a Spot Check Batman Gambit Ascended Extra This Is Gonna Suck Italian Films The Place Put on a Bus Betty and Veronica Cruel and Unusual Death Refuge in Audacity Kubrick Stare Genre Throwback The Chessmaster Getting Crap Past the Radar Our Zombies Are Different How We Got Here Determinator Broken Aesop Ship Tease Gold Digger Hidden Depths Mr. Fanservice Film Series The Ace Gratuitous English Whole Plot Reference Stepford Smiler Laser-Guided Karma Brick Joke Foregone Conclusion Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Setting Update I Need a Freaking Drink No-Sell Chekhov's Skill Break the Haughty Mugging the Monster Bloody Hilarious Adaptational Heroism Expy The Oner Friend to All Children Hell Is That Noise Camp Gay An Aesop A Date with Rosie Palms Match Cut Break the Cutie Blood from the Mouth Recycled IN SPACE! Developing Doomed Characters Wrong Genre Savvy Line-of-Sight Name Villainous Breakdown Make It Look Like an Accident Pragmatic Villainy Driven to Suicide Rule of Symbolism Light Is Not Good Big Damn Heroes Really Gets Around Race Lift Skewed Priorities Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Call-Forward Grievous Bottley Harm Chekhov's Gun Anti-Hero Dark Reprise Slashed Throat Sci-Fi Horror The Brute Adaptational Attractiveness Enemy Mine Redemption Equals Death Ripped from the Headlines Despair Event Horizon Took a Level in Jerkass Slasher Movie Love at First Sight Artistic License – Geography Meaningful Background Event Needs Wiki Magic Love Insult Backfire Authority Equals Asskicking Well-Intentioned Extremist Alliterative Name As the Good Book Says... She Cleans Up Nicely Bond One-Liner I Have Your Wife Dwindling Party What the Hell, Hero? Mind Screw Kick the Son of a Bitch Exact Words Action Survivor Film Noir Show Within a Show Crazy-Prepared Agony of the Feet Hollywood Darkness Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pretty in Mink Sinister Minister Genre Shift Vomit Discretion Shot Disguised in Drag Heel Realization Stealth Pun The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Creepy Child Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Faceless Psychopathic Manchild Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Implacable Man Spared by the Adaptation The Bad Guy Wins Historical Villain Upgrade Catapult Nightmare Arc Words Almost Kiss Call-Back French Films Artistic License – Physics No Antagonist Unreliable Narrator Reality Is Unrealistic Danny Peary Cult Movies List As Long as It Sounds Foreign Pretty Little Headshots Faux Affably Evil Naïve Newcomer Horror Comedy Half the Man He Used to Be Arranged Marriage Rewatch Bonus Deal with the Devil Bloodier and Gorier Sir Swears-a-Lot Silence Is Golden Slap-Slap-Kiss The Chick Didn't Think This Through Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Alpha Bitch Drives Like Crazy Based on a True Story Silent Movie An Axe to Grind Works Set in World War II Obstructive Bureaucrat Manipulative Bastard Tranquil Fury Black Comedy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife All Men Are Perverts Paper-Thin Disguise Lampshade Hanging The Stinger Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Epic Movie Nice Guy Bait-and-Switch Super Strength Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Closed Circle Dogged Nice Guy Big Brother Instinct Establishing Character Moment Amusing Injuries Adorkable Apocalypse How The Sociopath Villain Opening Scene Breaking the Fourth Wall Truth in Television Those Two Bad Guys It Will Never Catch On Black Best Friend Adaptation Expansion Dies Wide Open Science Fiction Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Action Genre Artistic License – History Suddenly SHOUTING! Cool Old Guy Due to the Dead Hollywood Law Real Life It's Personal Outrun the Fireball Smug Snake Mighty Whitey Captain Ersatz Covers Always Lie Freudian Excuse Russian Films Department of Redundancy Department Parental Substitute Sports Stories Rule of Cool Product Placement O.O.C. Is Serious Business Gory Discretion Shot Suspiciously Similar Substitute Mr. Exposition British Films The Dreaded Heroes Want Redheads Big Fancy House Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bottomless Magazines The Mafia Action Girl Rape as Drama Male Gaze Dramedy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Police are Useless Smoking Is Cool Punch-Clock Villain Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Extreme Doormat Groin Attack Meaningful Echo Actor Allusion Evil Counterpart Cool Car An Arm and a Leg Artistic License – Gun Safety Even Evil Has Standards Five-Man Band Bloodless Carnage Blood Knight Improbable Aiming Skills Toplessness from the Back Dirty Cop Yandere Offscreen Teleportation Retcon A God Am I Face Death with Dignity Death Glare Papa Wolf The Smurfette Principle Obfuscating Stupidity Star-Crossed Lovers Easily Forgiven Visual Pun Nothing Is Scarier Rich Bitch Ironic Echo Dressing as the Enemy Historical Hero Upgrade All for Nothing Military and Warfare Films Car Fu Novelization Worthy Opponent The Lost Lenore Villain Song Reality Ensues Scary Black Man Fantasy Films Eiffel Tower Effect The Atoner Bavarian Fire Drill Major Injury Underreaction Those Wacky Nazis Dual Wielding Fate Worse than Death Red Shirt Femme Fatale Fainting Green-Eyed Monster Jerk Jock Anachronism Stew All Girls Want Bad Boys Noodle Incident Fatal Family Photo Chase Scene Cat Scare Greater-Scope Villain Dirty Old Man Blatant Lies Bullying a Dragon Sassy Black Woman Villain Protagonist Very Loosely Based on a True Story A Father to His Men Mundane Made Awesome Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Token Minority You Killed My Father In Name Only Dramatic Gun Cock Dark and Troubled Past Brother–Sister Incest Ambiguous Ending 20 Minutes into the Future Deconstruction The Quiet One Framing Device Parental Abandonment Empathic Environment Ms. Fanservice Amoral Attorney Meet Cute Wham Shot Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Heel–Face Turn I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mystery and Detective Films Cain and Abel "Well Done, Son!" Guy Award-Bait Song In the Back The End... Or Is It? It's All About Me Early-Bird Cameo Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique timeperiod Suspiciously Specific Denial Determinator aka: The Determinator The Musical Properly Paranoid Shown Their Work The Un-Reveal A Minor Kidroduction No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Film Noir Index Death by Irony Superhero Mercy Kill May–December Romance Beta Couple Riddle for the Ages The Big Guy Crucified Hero Shot World of Ham Flipping the Bird Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Unspoken Plan Guarantee Imagine Spot Thriller Scenery Porn Abusive Parents Fiery Redhead Insistent Terminology Not So Different Manic Pixie Dream Girl Once More, with Clarity! Cat Fight Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Big-Bad Ensemble Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Four-Temperament Ensemble Hero Antagonist Cool Old Lady Bald of Evil Laughing Mad Took a Level in Badass Death Seeker There Is No Kill Like Overkill Camera Abuse Leitmotif Armor-Piercing Question Random Events Plot Loads and Loads of Characters Annoying Younger Sibling Pet the Dog Fanservice Extra Room Full of Crazy The Cameo Rule of Funny No-Holds-Barred Beatdown La Résistance Crapsack World Foreshadowing Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Babies Ever After Hate Sink Curse Cut Short Casting Gag Shirtless Scene Artistic License – Biology Idiot Ball Stock Footage The Remake War Is Hell Logo Joke Diabolus ex Machina Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Foil Comically Missing the Point Dying Moment of Awesome Together in Death Trailers Always Spoil Rasputinian Death Frame-Up Better to Die than Be Killed Gorn Early Installment Weirdness Stylistic Suck Naked People Are Funny Christmas Movies Index Villain Ball Serial Killer Guile Hero Meaningful Name One-Man Army Sanity Slippage Up to Eleven Bad "Bad Acting" Deliberate Values Dissonance Beware the Nice Ones Irony Plot Hole Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Daddy's Girl Badass Boast Big "NO!" Police Brutality Shower Scene Zombie Stories Wretched Hive Abhorrent Admirer Made of Iron She's Got Legs Awesome, but Impractical Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Dog Bites Back Fourth Date Marriage Attempted Rape Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Too Dumb to Live folderlabel Historical-Domain Character Big Bad Duumvirate Manly Tears Affably Evil You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Ungrateful Bastard The Ghost Mexican Standoff Cowboy Cop Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Power of Love Coming-of-Age Story Slasher Smile Left the Background Music On Henpecked Husband Instant Death Bullet Morality Pet Hypocrite The '80s Not Even Bothering with the Accent Shut Up, Hannibal! The Smart Guy Taking You with Me Deadpan Snarker Drowning My Sorrows Evil Plan Here We Go Again! Retired Badass Parental Neglect Cool Shades Lighter and Softer No OSHA Compliance Peek-a-Boo Corpse Expository Hairstyle Change Interrupted Suicide Shoot the Shaggy Dog Grey and Gray Morality And the Adventure Continues Lock and Load Montage Jerkass Only Known by Their Nickname Homage Small Name, Big Ego Badass Bookworm Soft Glass More Dakka Cassandra Truth Rated M for Manly BFG The '70s Spiritual Successor Missing Mom Stealth Hi/Bye Aside Glance Horror Films Karma Houdini Adults Are Useless I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Insane Troll Logic Love Triangle Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Real Life Writes the Plot Sacrificial Lion Public Domain Feature Films Disney Death Anachronic Order Reality Has No Subtitles Downer Ending Large Ham Married to the Job Mood Whiplash Actually Pretty Funny Air-Vent Passageway Maybe Ever After Demoted to Extra Villain with Good Publicity Red Eyes, Take Warning Our Vampires Are Different Sole Survivor Bunny-Ears Lawyer Running Gag Contrived Coincidence Motor Mouth Scenery Gorn Storming the Castle Not Using the "Z" Word Author Appeal Big Bad Decoy Protagonist And Starring Red Oni, Blue Oni Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Black Dude Dies First Plucky Comic Relief No Name Given Overly Long Gag A.I. Is a Crapshoot Evil Brit Funny Foreigner Disappeared Dad Curb-Stomp Battle Kick the Dog Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Stalker with a Crush Humiliation Conga Captain Obvious Last-Name Basis Same Language Dub Facial Horror Revenge Broken Pedestal The '60s Martial Arts Movie Soundtrack Dissonance Heroic BSoD The Starscream Would Hurt a Child Victoria's Secret Compartment Neck Lift Freeze-Frame Bonus Action Prologue Gilligan Cut Biopic Leaning on the Fourth Wall Creative Closing Credits Television Movie Index Combat Pragmatist Artistic License – Military Happily Married "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Canadian Movies Conspicuous CG Spanner in the Works Ax-Crazy Bi the Way Bond Villain Stupidity Pay Evil unto Evil Asshole Victim Index of Film Westerns Playing Gertrude Time Skip The Cavalry Never Found the Body Important Haircut Your Head A-Splode Video Credits You Have Failed Me Ass Shove Dumb Blonde Historical In-Joke Fire-Forged Friends I'm a Humanitarian Poor Communication Kills Beauty Is Never Tarnished Faking the Dead Fingore No Ending For the Evulz Oh, Crap! Take a Third Option Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Humans Are Bastards Gone Horribly Right Aluminum Christmas Trees The Reveal You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Catch-Phrase Fantastic Racism Eldritch Abomination The Voiceless Daylight Horror Music Stories One-Word Title Did Not Get the Girl The Lancer Country Matters Be Careful What You Wish For Heroic Sacrifice Evil Is Hammy Corrupt Corporate Executive Leave the Camera Running Hong Kong Films Gender Flip Bring My Brown Pants Adapted Out Anti-Villain Twist Ending Canon Foreigner Taking the Bullet Wham Line The Hero Death of a Child Cloudcuckoolander Face–Heel Turn Manchild Evil Sounds Deep The Stoic Mad Scientist Monumental Damage Damsel in Distress Berserk Button One Steve Limit Improvised Weapon Unresolved Sexual Tension Continuity Nod For Want of a Nail Totally Radical Animated Credits Opening Intrepid Reporter Get Out! Book-Ends Accidental Misnaming Calling the Old Man Out Those Two Guys Man on Fire Your Cheating Heart He Who Fights Monsters Affectionate Parody Fat Bastard Boom, Headshot! I Did What I Had to Do Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Only Sane Man Pimped-Out Dress '80s Hair Fatal Flaw Immune to Bullets Woman Scorned Cold-Blooded Torture Adult Fear Only a Flesh Wound Auto Erotica Throwing Your Sword Always Works Defiant to the End The Film of the Book Accidental Murder Age Lift No Celebrities Were Harmed Destination Defenestration Everyone Has Standards Jerk with a Heart of Gold Nice Hat As You Know Black Comedy Rape MacGuffin Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bilingual Bonus Demonic Possession Children Are Innocent "The Reason You Suck" Speech Sexy Discretion Shot Central Theme Death by Adaptation All There in the Script Bar Brawl The Load Serious Business The Vamp Reckless Gun Usage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dark Is Not Evil Parental Incest Say My Name Author Avatar Vacation Films From Bad to Worse Earn Your Happy Ending Mistaken for Gay Psychological Thriller Japanese Films Double-Meaning Title Madness Mantra Would Hit a Girl Disproportionate Retribution Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Names to Run Away from Really Fast Animal Motifs Depraved Bisexual Spiteful Spit Off with His Head! Spell My Name with an "S" Word of God Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Overprotective Dad My Greatest Failure Intergenerational Friendship Drill Sergeant Nasty Anguished Declaration of Love Flashback Beard of Evil Take That! Non-Indicative Name Bound and Gagged Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bittersweet Ending Dutch Angle Back from the Dead Badass in a Nice Suit The Ditz Cool Guns My God, What Have I Done? Made of Explodium Self-Deprecation Tap on the Head German Films Jerkass Has a Point Wicked Cultured Disney Villain Death Have a Gay Old Time Loophole Abuse Shout-Out Older Than They Look Arch-Enemy Defrosting Ice Queen Bury Your Gays Adaptation Name Change Retirony Bare Your Midriff Every Car Is a Pinto Fish out of Water Bowdlerise Vitriolic Best Buds Not Quite Dead Adaptational Badass Handicapped Badass Roaring Rampage of Revenge What You Are in the Dark Karmic Death The Mole He Knows Too Much The '50s Shipper on Deck Stuff Blowing Up Big Eater Mooks Ambiguously Gay Double Entendre Badass Longcoat Punny Name Not So Above It All Death by Sex Narrator The '90s Sequel Hook Redshirt Army Unusual Euphemism Eyepatch of Power Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bolivian Army Ending My Beloved Smother Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Adaptation Dye-Job Darkest Hour Men Are the Expendable Gender The Bully True Companions Scare Chord Dull Surprise Black and Gray Morality Not What It Looks Like Chewing the Scenery Market-Based Title Training Montage Chiaroscuro Romantic False Lead NO INDOOR VOICE Creator Cameo Woman in White Improbable Weapon User The Casanova Knife Nut Famous Last Words Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Credits Gag Good Is Not Nice The X of Y Jump Scare Mama Bear Rousing Speech Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Extremely Short Timespan As Himself Epic Fail Only One Name Evil Laugh Card-Carrying Villain Pragmatic Adaptation Does Not Like Shoes Translation Convention Genre Savvy Ambiguous Disorder "Shaggy Dog" Story Advertised Extra Character Development "Awesome McCool" Name Broken Bird Body Horror Only in It for the Money Big Applesauce Deliberately Monochrome Sealed Evil in a Can Guns Akimbo Dark Action Girl Documentary Blackmail